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perl 6 eat your heart out

Can you elaborate this comment? Haven't used Perl in the last 12 years, so I fit the persona of "living under a rock"

Perl 6 took like 15 years to be released, and was met with fairly lukewarm reception, sometimes very negative. It ended up being renamed because it was so different from Perl 5, so it’s now called Raku. It was a flop.

Got it! Thank you for the explanation

Read this line on Wiki: "In Perl 6, we decided it would be better to fix the language than fix the user - Larry wall"

Looks like a very good philosophical statement. Maybe there's a lesson here for other programming language

( The other Perl slogan: "Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible" is also really good )

> It [Raku] was a flop.

From what I read, it's a living, breathing language with innovative features, core developers, regular releases and a healthy community of users. What more do you want?

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